through Egypt and Syria. 41 1 



Or, if other reafons operate to prevent my requeft from 

 being complied with, and if any fufpicions prevail relative 

 to my views in coming here, I defire, without further delay, 

 to be furniflied with the means of returning to Egypt, before 

 I fuft'er, as commonlv happens to ftrangers, from the effefts 

 of the climate, while I am yet in the habit of travelling, and 

 while the funds are yet unexhauftcd which fiioukl fupport 

 me in my progrefs farther." 



The mifrcprefentations which had been made concerning 

 Mr. Brown, and which had by this time reached the Sultan, 

 manacled the hands of the Melek, and prevented his remon- 

 ftrance from having any effecl. Finding, therefore, no mode 

 of advancing till the reft of the caravan fhould oljtnin the 

 fame permiffion, he refolved to follow the example of the 

 other jelabs, and wait patiently the event. At length, after 

 the expiration of about ten days, an order from the Sultan 

 arrived, direfting that all the jelabs fliould be allowed to 

 proceed to their houfes on paying the duties aifefled on 

 them. 



Before leaving Kahira, Mr. Brown had been apprifed 

 that all commerce in Dar-Fiir was condudled by means of 

 fimple exchange. To carry on this, in fuch a way as not 

 to be grofsly defrauded, he was induced to feek for a perfon 

 who might go through this bufinefs for him, at leaft with 

 fome fliare of probity. The perfon recommended to him 

 for that purpofe had been a flave-broker in the market of 

 Kahira j and though Mr, Brown expefted from him that 

 fubmiffion and obedience for which the lower claffes of the 

 Kahirines arc, externally at Itaft, remarkable, he was difap- 

 pointed in his expcftalions. The letters with which he was 

 provided for difierent merchants in this diftrift, under whofe 

 roof he might have had a fafc lodging, could be of no ufe 

 till he had fcen the Sultan ; for, till then, no perfon knew in 

 what character to receive him. The objc6l of this man, 

 therefore, was to prevent his introduftion to the Sultan, and 

 to preclude him from any opportunity of rcprefenting his 



cafe. 



